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There is a finely-dressed pale figure at the piano, this evening, playing something that seems almost humanly impossible. Deft fingers, ever-moving, flash across and along the keys.

Some evenings just call for diabolical accompaniment.

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(Turns out you can tickle a cat quite successfully to that tune. Who knew?)

Fry is watching entranced.

"What grade are you on?" he asks, when Yrael finishes.

The pale man looks over at Fry, tilting his head in curiosity.

"Grade? I'm not sure that I know."

"I think it would be quite high." Fry says. "I'm only working on grade 3."

Yrael scoots to the side of the piano bench and stands, smiling. "May I hear what you're working on?"

Fry gets up onto the bench and starts to play from memory.

He listens in attentive silence, appreciative.

"Well done," Yrael says, when the piece is finished. "Do you have a favorite out of what you have learned so far?"

"Not really." Fry says. "I learn the songs in order."

There's a pretty androgyne in the bar tonight, putting together a basket of food to take back to the rooms he shares with Athelstan.

But the music is stirring and beautiful. Sinric stops to listen, caught mid-gesture by the sound.

Though the pale man's fine-boned hands never cease their deft wanderings over the keys, sometimes quiet and rumbling, sometimes startlingly loud, his leaf-green eyes eventually lift to gaze at the pretty youth caught by the sound.

Sinric's mouth grows dry, his gaze caught by the strange and beautiful man and his even stranger and more beautiful music.

He ducks his head, blushing as he realises he's been caught staring.

A smile grows upon the man's face, tugging at the corners of his pale lips and crinkling the corners of his bright eyes, as he sees the blush and the ducking of Sinric's head. The pale musician may be chuckling, beneath the sound of the Devil's Staircase being played upon the keys of the piano, but it is not mocking. Just amused, and pleased.

The piece eventually ends. The last notes linger on the edge of hearing, followed by a ringing silence. An empty space left in the noise of the bar room.

The ending of the music breaks the spell and Sinric looks away at last, his heart thundering. He tries to focus on the basket of good and supplies he's putting together, trying not to look at the musician who's song has affected him so.

The musician's smile grows. His tall, thin form unfolds from the piano bench, his bare feet silent on the bar room floor as he approaches.

"There is no crime in taking a moment to enjoy something," he says to the blushing youth, as though confiding a great secret.

"Forgive me, sir." Sinric keeps his eyes low, his golden hair falling over his face. "I didn't mean to disturb you're playing."

He looks up a little, with pretty dark brown eyes. "It was very beautiful."

"An appreciative audience disturbs no musician. Much the opposite," he assures him.

"I'm glad you thought it so. Some would not agree; but then, it is not meant to be a comfortable piece of music."

Beautiful and challenging, like a great jagged escarpment of mountainside, or the whirling grace of a destructive tornado.

"Powerful, wild things should not be comfortable. They should be as they are but that's what makes them beautiful." He says softly, still keeping his eyes politely lowered.

There is a sound from the musician's throat. A pleased sort of hum.

"Very wise," he murmurs. "The more sublime beauty is to be found in what is unquantifiable, in what is hard to comprehend, to hold onto, to know fully."

There is something lost, in taming what should be wild.

"You are a poet, sir. As well as an musician." Sinric blushes lightly again.

He is the very opposite of what is being described - a tamed thing, born and raised in a golden cage but longing to be wild and free.

Freedom, in Yrael's experience, is a particular frame of mind. It can be learned, and it can be lost. The desire for it is what is most important.

"A title I lay no claim to," the albino young man chuckles. "A musician, yes, for music has ever been part of me, but I am no poet. I merely... know what I like best."

"Do you play music, yourself?"

"And yet you speak with such eloquence." He offers a little smile.

"A little." He confesses softly. "I play flute, dutar and drum but mostly I sing for my Lord's pleasure."

"I merely say what I mean," he smiles. "I am not the great orator of my family."

That distinction rests with Dyrim. Or would, if he still had a consciousness of his own.

Yrael tilts his head in curiosity. "May I hear you sing, sometime? Or play, whichever you wish? It needn't be now - you are about a task already, and I would not delay you."

That brings him back to himself, hand on his basket. "I do, forgive me, sir. Your wonderful music distracted me. My friend is unwell and I came to fetch him food and tea."

He looks at Yrael with a sweetly hopeful smile. "But I woukd be very glad to sing or play for you, some other time if it is convinced to you."

"It would be lovely to hear you," Yrael smiles back at him, too-green eyes bright. "Milliways has been my home for many years now, and I love it dearly, but certainly it could do with more beautiful sounds wreathing its halls."

"I wish your friend a speedy recovery," Yrael inclines his head slightly to the youth, meeting and keeping his gaze for a moment. "We shall meet again, at a time better suited for distraction."

Sinric takes his basket and bows deeply, sensing that this man is high above him in status. "I would be honoured, sir. Milliways has been most kind to me in it's sanctuary and the fellowship I have found here. I would be glad to repay that with my poor gift of song."

He turns to go and pauses, "Sir, I am called Sinric, should you wish to seek me."

"No song, if heartfelt, is ever poor," Yrael says quietly, a slight smile on his face.

"It was good to meet you, Sinric, and I look forward to seeing you again. Should you wish to find me, the name I am known by is Yrael."

"Yrael." He bows again and takes his basket to go.

{ooc: thank you, that was adorable!}

(ooc: Thank YOU! I've been wanting them to meet forever, but only recently has Yrael's voice been awake enough for me to play him.)

{ooc: I'll be posting an ep for him on Sunday if you're about. He would love to sing with Yrael.}

(ooc: Sounds like a plan! :D)

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